Legacy - About Flexible Length Fasteners

The references are generated on the fly when instantiating a template or updating a flexible fastener instance.

You can use flexible length fasteners when handling fasteners with more than two components.

The main areas are:

• EntryPoint: This is the overall fastener datum at the entry location point of the fastener on the pilot part.
• ExitPoint: This is the geometric point at which the fastener exits the panel stack being fastened.

  There are two sets of components that can be specified as part of the adaptive length fastener assembly: These are referred to as Head components and Tail components.

  Each set of components may include from one to three components. Separate products are required for each of head components and tail components.

A fastener component can be either a head component or a tail component. Therefore, positioning the different components of the flexible length fastener consists of:

• Positioning each component one related to the other in each group.
• Positioning head group and tail group related to the thickness to fasten.

Specific Case: Use of LastExitPoint

When the EntryPoint and the ExitPoint have the same coordinates, you need to create LastExitPoint, an additional publication that makes the automatic positioning of the component possible.

LastExitPoint is an ExitPoint that you set on the component at the longest possible distance from EntryPoint.

You can modify a fastener instance by using Fastener Edition .

You need to choose a template in a catalog, define the position and orientation of the instance and then define the stacking.

When modified, the fastener is replaced by a fastener reference with the components correctly positioned.